Words Are Not Enough has been remastered and upscaled to HD on the official Steps YouTube channel, to celebrate the band’s 25th anniversary. To celebrate this iconic video, directors Aron Baxter and Thrain Shadbolt have shared their memories of making the video. They spoke to reporter Chris Fox via video call. CHRIS FOX: How did […]
Incredible news in Steps world today: the Platinum Collection has topped the albums chart in the UK! Steps have now had a number one album in four consecutive decades, a stunning achievement. Huge congratulations to the band and the teams at Sony Music and Fascination. Speaking exclusively to OfficialCharts.com, Steps said: “We could NOT be […]
Merry Steps Platinum Collection Release Day to all those who celebrate! The album is out now and available as a digital download and on streaming. We’ve posted the full lyrics to The Runner and we’ll be updating the discography shortly. The digital download on the Steps official store contains a platform-exclusive track: After The Love […]
The new Steps track Hard 2 Forget will be played for the first time on the Radio 2 breakfast show with Zoe Ball, on Thursday 7 July at 8.40am. The music video will also premiere on Thursday, at 1.30pm on the official Steps YouTube channel.
The music video for One For Sorrow has been remastered in true high definition. The music video rushes were rescanned from the original 16mm film to create a genuine high definition copy of the iconic video, which has been uploaded to YouTube for the first time on the band’s official channel. ✨ The music video […]
Steps performed on ITV’s Jubilee celebration show broadcast today. They performed a megamix of their greatest hits with backing from a live band. The mix included What The Future Holds, Scared Of The Dark, Stomp, Deeper Shade Of Blue and Tragedy. Sadly Lee was not present due to Covid. The performance was recorded on Thursday […]
Steps have done a bunch of interviews to launch the Platinum Collection album. Here are some of them. From the Official Charts Company: On November 10 1997 Lisa Scott-Lee, Faye Tozer, Ian ‘H’ Watkins, Lee Latchford-Evans and Claire Richards burst onto the pop scene with their utterly bonkers, techno-pop-meets-country classic 5, 6, 7, 8. It […]
Steps have announced a new greatest hits package, their new Platinum Collection. The album will be released on 19 August and there are several packages including a standard CD, a deluxe double-CD set plus a box set of five CDs with a different member of Steps on each cover. The band has also released a […]
The music video for Stomp has been remastered in ultra-high definition 4K on the official Steps YouTube channel. While the remastered videos so far have been restored from tape, Stomp was rescanned from the original 35mm film negatives to produce a genuine 4K copy of the iconic video. ✨
Steps’ What The Future Holds tour will be released on CD, DVD and Blu-ray in summer 2022. The concert was recorded at the London O2 Arena on 27 November 2021 without Lee, who was isolating due to Covid-19. The band blended in footage record for the arena video screens at a previous date to create […]
The music video for Better Best Forgotten has been remastered and upscaled to HD on the official Steps YouTube channel. As with previous videos that have been remastered, the best version available was a copy of an old analogue BetaSP tape, so the editor went back to the original rushes on Digital Beta tape to […]
Chain Reaction has been remastered and upscaled to HD on the official Steps YouTube channel, to celebrate the band’s 25th anniversary. The best copy of the video available came from an old analogue tape format known as Beta SP so the editor had to clean up “sparkling” (a type of analogue distortion) shot-by-shot before upscaling […]
Steps have had to cancel the two remaining dates of the What The Future Holds tour, which were postponed due to Covid. In a statement, the band said: We have tried every possible way to proceed with our ‘What The Future Holds’ arena tour dates in Cardiff and Bournemouth that were rescheduled because of Covid. […]
A remastered version of 5, 6, 7, 8 has been posted on the Steps YouTube channel to celebrate the band’s 25th anniversary. Since the original music video was mastered to analogue tape, the editor went back to the original music video rushes to recut the video scene by scene to get a better result, before […]
Steps have had to postpone the final two shows of the What The Future Holds tour after further members of the touring party tested positive for coronavirus. In an announcement on Twitter, the band said they were so disappointed but keeping fans safe was the top priority. The news means gigs in Cardiff and Bournemouth […]
Faye will return to the What The Future Holds tour tonight after ending her coronavirus isolation. The group had been performing as a four without Faye, with Lisa, H and Lee picking up Faye’s lines in songs. However, in sad news Lee has now tested positive for coronavirus and will miss Saturday’s show at the […]
Steps’ official Twitter account has confirmed that Faye has tested positive for Covid-19 and will miss tour dates until she is allowed out of self-isolation. An update on tonight's show. #WTFHTour pic.twitter.com/fBrIFs8yhw — Steps (@OfficialSteps) November 19, 2021
Steps have released a new music video for A Hundred Years Of Winter plus an EP of remixes.
Steps’ new album What The Future Holds Pt.2 has reached #2 in the official UK album chart, selling about 25,000 copies. Steps were beaten to the #1 spot by the Manic Street Preachers who sold 27,000 albums – mirroring the album battle in 1998 that kept Step One from the top spot. In an Instagram […]
Steps have been interviewed by The Official Charts Company. Here’s the piece: This is the first time you’ve created a sequel to one of your albums. What made you want to give What The Future Holds a follow-up? Claire: “Originally we were planning [to just have a deluxe version] of the album. And when we […]